Esther Wojcicki, known as “The Godmother of Silicon Valley” is a journalist and award-winning educator, a pioneer in the integration of technology into the classroom, and a world-renowned advocate for students and teachers. The founder of the Journalistic Learning Initiative at the University of Oregon, she is the recipient of a number of teaching awards and sits on the Board of leading educational organizations, including PBS Learning Forum and Creative Commons. Wojcicki also serves an advisor for edtech companies, non-profits, foundations, and the U.S. Department of Education. She is She is the author of Moonshots in Education (2014) and How to Raise Successful People (May, 2019). She is the mother of Susan Wojcicki (CEO of YouTube), Janet Wojcicki (Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF) and Anne Wojcicki (Founder and CEO of 23andMe) and the grandmother of nine.

Dr. Wojcicki founded the Palo Alto High Media Arts Program, one of America’s largest, most dynamic and successful high school media studies programs, and a model of how to teach 21st century skills. She regularly presents on her work and methods to global audiences of educators, policy makers and business leaders, where she pushes them to think differently integrating technology and learning.